The Rise and Demise of Rehabilitation Punishment, Culture and Society in Modern Britain

根据与牛津大学出版社的合同，这笔资金用于完成一本关于1895年至今英国刑罚制度历史的书的剩余三个部分的研究。这项资助将允许研究者在伦敦完成对内政部、监狱委员会和大法官办公室未发表论文的研究。这本书将对20世纪英国惩罚的基本原则和模式进行批判性的描述。它将从一个非常广泛的角度调查惩罚：从法律制定，到量刑，再到法律处罚的管理。它还将强调改革精神的政治和民众限制。这本书有可能对历史和社会法律研究作出重大贡献。它将引起许多学科群体的兴趣，包括学者：(1)关注法律的制定，(2)审查量刑和司法法院，(3)对不同的惩罚方式感兴趣，(4)关注新闻界和公众舆论对刑事政策的影响。它将填补学术界现有的一个空白——目前没有对过去一个世纪的惩罚趋势进行综合研究，也没有人试图将这一主题置于更大的社会、政治、法律和历史背景中。

This grant funds research to complete the remaining three sections of a book, under contract with Oxford University Press, on the history of the British penal system from 1895 to the present. This grant will allow the investigator to complete research in London on the unpublished papers of the Home Office, the Prison Commission, and the Lord Chancellor's Office. The book will present a critical account of the essential principles and patterns of punishment in twentieth-century Britain. It will investigate punishment from a very broad perspective: from law making, through sentencing, to the administration of legal penalties. It will also emphasize the political and popular limits to the reforming ethos. This book has the potential to make significant contributions to historical and socio-legal studies. It will be interest to a number of subject groups, including scholars: (1) concerned with law-creation, (2) examining sentencing and the judicial courts, (3) interested in the different modes of punishment, and (4) concerned with the impart on penal policy of the press and public opinion. It will fill an existing gap in scholarship-current there is no existing synthesis of the trends in punishment over the past century and none that seek to situate the subject with the larger social, political, legal, and historical context.